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It Is Important Not To Confuse Freedom With Mere Permissiveness

If The System Breaks Down The Consequences Will Still Be Very Painful. But The Bigger The System Grows The More Disastrous The Results Of Its Breakdown Will Be, So If It Is To Break Down It Had Best Break Down Sooner Rather Than Later.

Those Who Are Most Sensitive About "politically Incorrect" Terminology Are Not The Average Black Ghetto-dweller, Asian Immigrant, Abused Woman Or Disabled Person, But A Minority Of Activists, Many Of Whom Do Not Even Belong To Any "oppressed" Group But Come From Privileged Strata Of Society.

The Industrial-technological System May Survive Or It May Break Down. If It Survives, It May Eventually Achieve A Low Level Of Physical And Psychological Suffering, But Only After Passing Through A Long And Very Painful Period Of Adjustment And Only At The Cost Of Permanently Reducing Human Beings And Many Other Living Organisms To Engineered Products And Mere Cogs In The Social Machine.

The Techno-industrial System Is Exceptionally Tough Due To Its So-called "democratic" Structure And Its Resulting Flexibility. Because Dictatorial Systems Tend To Be Rigid, Social Tensions And Resistance Can Be Built Up In Them To The Point Where They Damage And Weaken The System And May Lead To Revolution. But In A "democratic" System, When Social Tension And Resistance Build Up Dangerously The System Backs Off Enough, It Compromises Enough, To Bring The Tensions Down To A Safe Level.